Newton High School - Newtonian Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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Suauusmmy VICE - 1'nu4:sm1sN'1 PRESIDENT I'1zo1fu15T PROPII ET

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SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS iii H llbresibent - ROBERT ROUT WEST lbiceallbresibent wrator 1 4 ' MARY PAINE ROBERT ROUT WEST Secretarv Statistician RUTH CLARK HENRY G, MACLURE A treasurer dmetorian GRAFTON SANDERSON, JR. MARY PAINE V A Ilbropbets A DONALD BELCHER BEATRICE KATHLEEN ALLEN

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16 THE NEWTONIAN T El mighty 1Race BY HELEN W. GANSE, ,II cfjPgIq ANY years ago there was begun a mighty race. inlwhich all who Q 'W had arrived by a previous race at the point where it began, might f compete.. In this race there were to be four laps, each to be done in a day,-and in this fact existed the peculiarity of the contestg JQQ9 'xy for it was not a question of time required but of distance covered in the four days. It was to be ,run on the broad road of Learning, which at first was level and straight, but soon became rough, uneven, and winding. All who entered the race were put in different divisions on the road, and these divisions were separated into classes-from which one took one's number. Thus each runner was designated by his division and class: for instance, Brookline IQI2.H Every day one class started upon the race, and soon came the day when Newton 1911 was called. Many gay children started out in this class: . girls in fine new gingham dresses, boys with their first long trousers. Merrily they tripped along the morning of the first day,-sometimes not knowing the way, but seldom heeding the voices of those they met along the road: partly because they did not understand them, as some talked in French, others in German, others even in Greek and Latin, partly because these children did not know that they were there expressly to help them on. When noon came they were very ready for the little rest that was allowed them by the man who rode along in a buggy and superintended the management of the race. Then on again they plodded, growing acquainted with their fellow- runners and sometimes contesting with each other in little sprints. When the evening of the first day came, most of the class Newton 1911 lay down to rest, but some who had been lazy at the beginning had to run on to overtake their mates. - Bright and early the next morning they started on again, refreshed and perhaps too confident. Often they were surprised to see the same faces which had greeted them the day before, and during the second day they gradually be- came acquainted with these men and women, who, they found, would help them over many a hard place. The little contests along the way were increased, more friendships were made, and soon every one deemed himself fortunate to have been allotted to this particular class and division. As the evening of the second day drew near many grew weary, but still they plodded on- eager to win that night's rest. On the morning of the third day the race was gaily renewed, for the runners were joyful in the knowledge that if they found hard places there were those to I 24: lf. fit. Q 7 f:'aLq!,fe:vf i' F 5 t P A, v 2 :G